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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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At over 7 meters wide, I would imagine that you're limiting the number of roads it can travel on. In an open field or on main highways and interstates, with two or more lanes there wouldn't be an issue, but in many urban areas that still maintain single lane roads, this thing isn't going to fit...or at the very least in situations where there are two lane roads you're still going to be up on the side walks or running over on the shoulders. And in such situations, you're facing having to run in single columns to move large numbers of people and equipments through a narrow corridor. If that's not an ambush waiting to happen, I don't know what is.
Granted it might not be designed for urban warfare and never actually enter a town, but there is always the chance that it could be pressed into that type of service. I don't know if the Abrams MBT was ever originally intended for urban combat, but seeing it drive down the streets of Baghdad has become a familiar sight over the past few years, so much so that they upgraded it with urban survival capabilities.
Of course so far into the future who is to say if there will even be any single lane roads left. It was more of an issue for me because my series is set closer to the present and all the fighting was happening on Earth so it wasn't believable to suggest that every road on earth had grown to four lanes wide. So I made the choice to keep my armored units within the limits of a single lane road so they could make use of any paved surface that actually exists right now.
And you could always get around this by designing a smaller armored vehicle designed specifically for urban combat, such as an IFV. At any rate, maybe I'm just over thinking things and if that's the case then my bad, but I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this.
You're right. This series is very far in the future, and to think that cities will look like paris is a bit of a stretch in and of itself.
If so, how fast are they throwing this stuff? Mach 5? 10? Higher?
Well, it looks absolutely badass ! I love how you mixed a traditional tank with futuristic plating and angular shapes. It gives me a slight Command&Conquer vibe (good times
At times like these I wish you did perspective shots for some of your work - it would be surely spectacular.